Machine Ecology
Machine ecology is not itself a foundational ontology. It is a class of configuration analyzed through Total-Relational Configuration-Generative Theory and MEHAA. This section presents the Institute’s research into machine-ecological systems, capital, and reproduction.
MEHAA — Machine-Ecological Hyperflat Analysis Audit
DefinitionAn applied analytical system connecting industrial ecology, world-ecology, complex systems, cybernetics, category-theoretic and compositional approaches, material-flow analysis, energy systems, logistics, maintenance, and institutional organization. Analyzes machines, humans, resources, electricity, logistics, ecosystems, and institutions without privileging any category in advance.
Machine-Ecological Capital Theory
Central PropositionPower Does Not Disappear After Human Extinction.
Analysis of capital beyond human intentionality and conventional market exchange through: resource concentration, computational concentration, control, access, maintenance, reproduction, stopping capacity, and machine-ecological asymmetry.
Marx Machine II / Dead Labour
Central PropositionDead labour increasingly maintains dead labour.
Key Metrics- Operational Human Support Intensity
- Machine-Ecosystem Labour Compression Rate
- Human Dependency Rate
- Machine Reproductive Closure
- Machine-Ecosystem Reproduction Rate
Labour closure · Energy closure · Material closure
Analysis of Physical AI and machine reproduction.
New Division-of-Labour Theory
Decomposition of technological divisions of labour into non-coincident moments: generation, ownership, design, application, execution, benefit appropriation, burden reception, modification, withdrawal, and re-entry. Conventional economics and division-of-labour theory treated as local cases within broader machine-ecological analysis.